NCT05818384Recruiting
Wakaya: Rising Up for Choctaw Youth Health
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 30 Sept 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
Investigators will conduct a two-group randomized waitlist-control trial to assess the efficacy of the Wakaya: Rising Up for Choctaw Youth Health program on improving physical activity, reducing sedentary behaviors and improving healthful eating habits as well as delaying or reducing alcohol, tobacco and other drug use. Wakaya is an experiential, outdoor, nature-based program grounded in Choctaw values. It is a multi-level intervention that increases individual motivation and leadership skills to make healthy behavioral choices for behavior and exercise.
- Status (registry)
- Recruiting
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 176 (estimated)
- First submitted
- 27 Mar 2023
- Start date
- 28 Apr 2023
- Primary completion date
- 30 Apr 2027
- Lead sponsor
- University of Washington
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT05818384
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Planned participants: 176
- From 28 Apr 2023 to the primary completion date, 30 Apr 2027
- 2 sites in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- opioid/methamphetamine drug use (2 times or more in past month)
Other illness
- allergic reactions to food (e.g. peanuts), plant (poison oak or ivy) or insects (e.g. bees, fire ants) that caused difficulty in breathing or necessitated hospitalization or caused an anaphylactic reaction
Other
- disability that prevents student from walking or from engaging in exercise
- aggressive, violent, combative or inappropriate behaviors
- inability to follow directions
- psychotic symptoms
Who the study is looking for
- Be enrolled in Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma (CNO)
- Live within CNO tribal region for 12 months
- YES to one of the following:
- Consumed sweetened beverages or processed/fast food 2x or more per week; OR
- Engaged in excessive sitting or lying around (\>540 min/day) or engage in small screen recreation (\>2 hours/day); OR
- Physical activity - spend \<60 minutes/day outdoors or \<2.5 hrs per week in moderate or vigorous physical activity OR spend \<60 minutes a day in moderate or vigorous intensity aerobic activity; OR
- Engage in any T.V., small screen/video game recreation (\> 2 hours/day)
Age in the registry: 12 years to 19 years · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (2)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Durant | United States | Recruiting |
| University of Washington, IWRI, School of Social Work Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Seattle | United States | Recruiting |
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